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How can people build others emotion? Normally, feeling always comes from
humans mind and thought that are hard to be controlled by others. Nevertheless, many arts
aim people to get into emotion especially poetry. Describing can form imagination images
inside readers head. Edna St. Vincent Millay uses that way to make readers to be able to
access her poems. Millay was an American poet. She was born on February 22, 1892 and
died on October 19, 1950. She writes a lot of poems by narrating nature which people can
easily access such as Time does not bring relief; you all have lied, What lips my lips have
kissed, and where, and why and Spring. Millay uses nature imagery of mountains, a tree,
Millay writes nature imagery of mountains with melting ice to lead readers to feel
pain because of missing someone. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied is about
woman who does not believe that time can ease her pain because she is still missing her
lover. Even she wants him back but it is impossible. Many year passing do not reduce her
pain so she grumbles that time does not make anything better and everyone lie to her. The
old snows melt from every mountain-side, / And last years leave are smoke in every lane;
(Millay, 1917) is an imagery of mountain showing the mood and tone of this poem. Millay
describes the situation when a thing disappears as it gone like smoke. When snow melt
leaving the mountain and there is only untouchable thing remaining, it reminds readers about
feeling of losing something in their life. In winter, mountains are covered with snow but
when the time pass through, there is no snow anymore. The only thing that is still there
cannot be touched or got by anyone. This condition lead reader into feeling of pain from
missing someone and feeling of gloom that there are no chance to hold it back any longer.
Millay usually uses imagery of nature to build negative feeling and there are many things that
Nature imagery of a tree left by animals is used for forming mood of loneliness.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why narrate a story that woman tries to
forget her lover who have kissed her and made many memories with her. However, she cries
at night with lonely feeling. Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, / Yet knows
its boughs more silent than before: (Millay, 1923) is used as a nature imagery of a tree to
explode feeling of a character. There is a tree with many birds being in. People generally see
many trees like a forest in nature but in this setting there is only one tree which put readers
into feeling of desolation and abandonment. Then, birds start to leave the tree one by one
until there are no more birds sitting on branches. Surrounding becomes silent. We are aimed
to see a picture of someone standing alone like this tree. It emphasizes the time that there is
no one beside you bringing us into the mood of loneliness. Moreover, besides negative
emotion, her nature imagery can create positive mood and tone such as warm mood.
Nature imagery of spring builds warm feeling of joy by describing new beautiful
things during seasons change. Spring is a poem about period of spring month and fake
beauty. In April, the nature present a beauty of itself. It is the condition of turning from
winter to spring. However, there is an irony in this poem. It begins with a beautiful
appearance of spring but in the middle it shows that appearance is lie. There is imagery at the
opening describing spring. An imagery of spring build a positive mood before twist. The sun
is hot on my neck as I observe / The spikes of the crocus. (Millay, 1921). As spring comes,
the weather becomes hot even there has been cold before. The sun shines extremely brightly
since a person can feel hot from it by own neck. It supports readers to see an image of bright
gleaming sun leading us to feel warm. There are spikes of crocus which is a plant that flowers
in spring. Spikes of crocus normally appear on surface of soil while pointing up. We are
going to imagine about those strong beautiful plants flowering among sunshine. Picture of
many beautiful flowers demonstrates new beginning of happiness. This appearance make us
to feel cheerful and glad with the beginning of good things. Poet uses nature imagery to build
readers to imagine picture in their mind and get into mood and tone of poems.
Many Millays poems contain nature imagery making readers to get into feeling of
each poems such as describing of mountains, a tree, and spring. Time does not bring relief;
you all have lied have a mood of pain from imagery of mountains. Lonely feeling in What
lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why is built through a tree. Spring is also used for
forming warm feeling in Spring. All these three poems contain nature imagery of different
things to make us to understand mood and tone from seeing pictures in own mind. Picture is a
great art that can communicate a lot of meaning at one time because imagination cannot be
Eaten by m aggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
April